POLL: jumpstarting the US IPO market

Author: | Published: 26 May 2017

While no single factor can explain the US IPO
market’s recent bounce-back, it’s
clear that government initiatives to support private companies
have helped

What could be the main
contributing factor to bolster the US IPO market
further?

Both 'extending confidential filings
to all markets’ and 'increasing antitrust
oversight to reduce M&A levels’ received
0% of votes

The initial public offering (IPO) market started slowly
in 2016, and didn't much improve as the year progressed. There
were no offerings in January, and figures in the first half of
the year were 60% lower than in 2015 – itself the
lowest year on record since 2009. Brexit caused some degree of
global volatility while the US presidential election, in
November, did little to settle nerves.

Early signs for 2017 have been much more positive, but IPO
rates are still a far cry from their dizzy pre-financial crisis
heights. To...